Ann-Marie MacDonald

Een Canadese vrouw leert als volwassene omgaan met traumatische ervaringen uit haar jeugd.

The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the story of a young Jewish man from Montreal who learns lessons in life from a series of people who serve as his mentors. As their apprentice, he is given the opportunity to observe their lives and learn from them, and as he does, he carves a course for a life he believes will bring him power and money.

"Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young children with the relentless needs of her aging parents. But amid the hilarities of full-on domesticity arises a sense of dread. Do others notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How long will it take Mary Rose to realize that the car alarm that has been going off all morning is hers, and how on earth did her sharpest pair of scissors wind up in her toddler's hands? As frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms of a childhood illness that compel her to rethink her own upbringing and family history. Over the course of one outwardly ordinary week, Mary Rose's world threatens to unravel, and the specter of violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her and her children. With humor and unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset explores the pleasures and pressures of family bonds, powerful and yet so easily twisted and broken. Ann-Marie MacDonald has crafted a searing, terrifying, yet ultimately uplifting story. "--

Hoch oben am Himmel ist der Mond zu sehen, eine blasse Oblate. Wir haben vor, ihn zu erreichen, bevor das Jahrzehnt zu Ende ist. Präsident Kennedy hat es fest versprochen. - Es sind die frühen 60er Jahre, die Welt ist technicolor-bunt, und die achtjährige Madeleine fährt zusammen mit ihren Eltern nach Centralia, einem abgelegenen Luftwaffenstützpunkt in Ontario. Madeleine liebt es, wie ihre Mutter Mimi dem Vater mit ihrer schlanken Hand über den Nacken fährt. Sie genießt die Geborgenheit auf der Rückbank des 1962er Ramblers und freut sich auf das neue Zuhause. All ihre Klugheit und Phantasie aber lassen sie nicht ahnen, welche Geheimnisse sie bald mit sich herumtragen wird. Mit dem schrecklichen Mord an ihrer Schulfreundin Claire nimmt die unschuldige Zeit ihrer Kindheit für immer ein Ende.